New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-10-11
ECCENTRIC MR.. GARRETT.
HIS PECULIAR WAYS AND TALK.

| COMMENT IN WALL STREET AND ELsEwHERE-s
WHAT THOSE WHO KNOW HIM SAY.
The sudden departure Of Robert Garrett on Sun.
| day and his immediate seclusion in his country
home near Baltimore in connection with his
eccentric actions in this city, were the principal
subjects of conversation in Wall Street Yesterday.
meeting Of the directors of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad is to be held on Wednesday, and
the annual election will take place on Novem.
ber 2l
These meetings require the attendance of tho
president and partly explain Mr. Garrett's return
from Europe and perhaps his departure for Balti-
more. His annual report president has not
been prepared, it is understood, and as Mr.. Gar
rett will probably retire from the active manage
ment of the railroad company at the annual meet
ing, it is regarded an evidence OF natural in
terest on his part that he should wish to return
TO Baltimore at the earliest possible moment
SURPRISE TO MR. GARRETT.
There is reason to believe that Mr.. Garrett was
greatly surprised on his arrival from Europe ON
Friday to learn that the Baltimore and Ohio tele.
graph lines had been sold and delivered 10 the
Western Union Company within twenty -four hours
or his landing. Although he had placed tho
management Of the railroad company in the hands
OF powerful syndicate and, in fact, was fully
informed of the progress of the negotiations about
was evidently of the opinion that undue haste hal
been made in concluding the great telegraph deal.
Soon after his arrival, Mr.. Garrett was in con-
sultation with his principal subordlnatcs. from
whom he must have learned the facts of the salo
and actual transfer of the telegraph property.
His statements later in the day that he had not
signed any papers may have been susceptible OF
double meaning, but they formed the ground
work for a newspaper story which aroused brief
doubt about the legality Of the sale. The Off
cal statements In behalf Of the syndicate and tho
Western Union Company proved that his utter
anccs were inspired by personal disappointment
or something still more serious.
1t is worthy of notice perhaps, that Mr. Garrett
did not visit the members Of the syndicate in
whose hands he had placed his affairs, and that
some of his friends tried to avoid such a meeting.
1t is not impossible that he sought a conference
with either j. Pierront Morgan Jay Gould, but
that they pre-warned.
STORIES TOLD ABOUT MR. GARRETT.
Mr.. CARROTS eccentric actions prevented any
sober discussion Of business matters with him,
and Sunday his friends were anxious chiefly
to remove him from the excitement into which
he had been thrown. 1t was only by strata
gem, however, that they succeeded in getting him
on board a train for Baltimore. A good many
stories about him reported in Wall Street
yeste rday. 1t was related that he said Of his
future plans:
am going to paw the debts the Prince of Wales
will come over here and run the BALTIMORE and Ohio
Railroad, which have given him. have bought q
that country.
II was said ais, that he sent for Robert Stewart
who used TO be manager OF his telegraph lines aud
Is now in the employ of the Western Union Com
pany and that when Mr.. Stewart entered his room
at the BrevOort House Mr.. Garrett seized aim by
the coat collar with both hands and, shouting TO
some one to lock the door, said to him:
Jay Could has been following me for four years and
you have been helping him to do it, I'll settle with
now.
REST AND QUIET NEEDED.
friend, who has known Robert Garrett from
childhood, SAID yesterday:
confess that do not know whether his mind is un-
settled We hope that quiet Will
him health. Heisyoung and strong
long time has overworkcd. It is prudent that he
should be taken out or the excitement which has recently
surrounded him and he allowed to recover his mental
equilibrium. saw him on sunday aud at times he
perfectly ratoa al, but later in the day his talk and
action such to excite doubt in my mind about
his mental condition.
CO. GRATULATING MIR. GOULD.
To show that Mr. Garrett had been subject to
violent alterations for several years, witness OF
the occurrence SAID that When Jay Gould occupied
the offices at No. 80 Broadway Mr. Garrett came IN
one day and graspiug Sir. Gould by the hand ex-
calmed
Il conGIatulate you on being president of tho
Ncw-lOsk Central Railroad; | have made you
president OF that great cor OratIOn.' The sequel
on the next day, according to the story,
when Mr.. Garrett sent request to Jay Gould TO
carry thousand shares OF Ncw-lork Central stock
which ne had bought. That at tine when
the Baltimore and Ohio had some reason TO COM
pl1in Of the action of the New-lorl< Central in
regard Ia rates. The story reminded some per-
sons i'm Wall Street Of the circumstances attend
ing the sudden death OF william ii. Vanderbilt.
LOSING CONTROL OF HIS MENTAL FACULTIES
gentleman whose position is high in the imam
cial and business world said yesterday:
fear that Mr. Garrett Is insane saw today tele-
gram from q Gentleman who saw Mr. Garrett In Baltimore
aud who telegraphed on here that he was insane
Another gentleman who saw Mr. Garrett before he eft
the that he has lost the control or his mental
faculties lie heard him talk aud takel with him AMI
HIM.
Cannot Mr. CARROTS action and woris be explained
on a theory OF conviyll ndugcncei I" WIS suggested
No fear not" ths reply. " From all hear AMI
know t looks like the other cause. believe mat Mt:
Carrett's condition aggravated by the worry AMI
anxcy that beset him at the time he went TO tue syndi
cate for help"
Those persons who sought TO explain the coudi
ton of Mr. GarretC in the most favorable light re-
called Chauncey VI. Depew's remarks on his return
from Europe on September 2S. when he sad:
Yes | met Mr. Garrett at Homburg. | saw him inst
preylons 10 tho announcement OF the DrexeMorgan ne
gotiatons for the SloOOo.OOO loan lie was IN hiSn
spirits, remarkably so-even exhilarated-and took
view OF the condition OF railroad properties
the United ami OF the prospects OF the Baltimore
and Ohio lie did not TO have care in the world
DR. John +. dealt. who accompanied Mr. Gar
rctt to Baltimore on sunday had not returned 70
his home at late hour last night.
DENYING THE RUMORs IN BALTIMORE.